Bridals

I have no idea if it is nontraditional for me to post pictures of my dress before the wedding.

That's something I've noticed about weddings--there are a lot of traditions. Some of them I love

and some of them I don't care for. Posting pictures of my dress pre-wedding for example....

I got tons of pictures and felt bad hiding them all away in my iphoto while only picking a handful

to be displayed at the wedding. So I decided I'd let my few blog followers grab a sneak peak.

:)

Here we go boys and girls, 2 more days and I'll be Mrs. Marchant. All nerves aside, I'm the luckiest girl to be marrying Gilbert. For the past 3 yeas I have hoped for this day. He is everything I'd pray I could marry. We have some crazy adventures ahead of us. But after driving across the U.S.A. with him last week I'm confident that there is no other person I'd want to go through these adventures with than him.

p.s. Brooke Shultz was our photographer

Two weeks & invitations

I can't believe Gil and I get married in two weeks.

Here is a look at the front and back of our invitations.

My favorite part about them is that they came per-addressed and hardly took any work to assemble!

If any of you blog readers are near-by you are more than welcome to come.

There will be frozen yogurt.... :)

pancay-cay!!

I remember when Gil first got some Swedish pancake mix. It was freshman year and I saw him after my American Heritage lab waiting for me with a Swedish pancake he had made. I ate it in my next class. It was sooooo good!

We had planned to get our marriage license this morning and decided we'd make a morning of it and eat breakfast before! We scrambled some odd ingredients together while listening to some eighties Swedish band and as a result we got some pefectly-thick Swedish pancakes. mmm mmm mmm..
love that boy.

p.s. This is the recipe we used. So simple and so perfect.

Papa

Happy Father's Day weekend to my grandpa, future-father-of-my-children, and Dad

All of these men have been very influential in my life. I am one lucky girl to be loved by them.

Engagement Pictures

 "I can't wait until we get married so I can kill all the spiders for you"

-Gilbert W. Marchant

Our engagements are here! 

After it rained on the day we were supposed to take them I was afraid they
wouldn't work out in time. 

Lindsey Orton took them and I couldn't be happier about her work!

See them on her blog here

In the mean time....

these are some of my favorites ;)

I finally understand what people mean when they say they fall more and more in love every day.

Sneak Peeks of our wedding.

I never understood how weddings took so long to plan. All you had to do was pick some colors, a cake, find a wedding dress and you were pretty much good to go. After being engaged for three weeks I now see how very wrong I was. details details details! And to be honest, I'm probably the only one who will notice the missing details. No one else is going to say, "Oh my goodness, they didn't have flowers by the cake!". While I'm over here stressing that not everything is going to be perfect...

It's fun though. It really is! picking out the colors, cake, and invitations is something I thrive off of! But Lately the stress has been creeeeeping up on me. Like when it rains on the day we were supposed to take our engagements, or I get a ticket for a really stupid reason, or school gets in the way of wedding stuff. It's harder than I thought it was going to be.

Luckily for me I've got a patient, understanding, and caring fiance. Who will make me laugh so hard during wedding registry that I've got hiccups for an hour and who will sit down and arrange/compose ( I don't know the music lingo) our piano duet for our wedding lunch. A fiance who will go to all of the marriage prep classes with me and take notes. And a fiance who will take me on a date to ikea and make me sit in every chair, lay on every bed, and test out every kitchen just for fun. These next two months are going to be absolutely crazy, emotional, and fun. I'm excited.

And just because you were so kind to let me rant about wedding plans....I'll let you take a sneak peek of some of my ideas....

Today

Not that I'm counting or anything...

Only 100 days until this boy comes home

(the one in the middle)

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

                                                      i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

--E.E. Cummings

And the Love Keeps Coming

Best day ever! (yes, even better than ice cream day)

I got a package. A green, beautiful, package with my name on it.

How good do I feel right now? SO good.

thoughts

I just finished my first college semester at BYU. Thoughts on the college life:

• 85% of the people at BYU are overachievers
• 12:00 is the new 10:00 (I swear we live in a different time zone on campus)
• You actually have to study for tests in order to get an A in the class (not just do the homework)
• If you want to meet new people you have to put yourself out there
• There are no more "labels" in college (ex. basketball player, soccer player, drama, etc...)
• facebook stalking happens all the time wether we like it or not
• There are actually a lot of LDS people that live outside of Utah (for some reason I always thought there were only a few out of staters)
• We are growing up

I know I was sad to leave high school because it was so fun but I've really enjoyed college and all the new friends I am making here. Christmas break is kind of an awkward time because you are stuck in the middle of high school/ college life but I'm excited to spend time with the high school buds, i've been missing them a lot!

As for the friend of mine who is extra special....the only way to sum it up is to say it is hard but okay. There are sad times for the most part I'm dealing with it very positively. It helps to know he is serving a mission and there is no other place he should be at this time in his life. Thank you thank you thank you to the following people who have been there for me these last few days (most of them don't read this blog or may not know how they've helped)

• Ariana Linda Viera
• Brian Lingam
• Liz Merrill
• Kami Rosen
• Steinia Dort
• Demarie Dawn
• Kirsten sister
• Parents
• Joshua Mason
• Melany Stanksy
• Marva Ellis
• Parents
• Zane
• Emily
• Nicole
• Bruno
• Bishop Bills

You have all helped me feel happy one way or another and I just want to say thank you :)

Another thing that helps is that he left for Ohio on Friday but I still get to talk to him until he gets set apart next Sunday. Yesterday he called me up and we had a lovely conversation. I began giving him an analogy about how we're all hard boiled eggs at BYU that I was making up on the spot, he seemed kind of confused so I took a step back to ask him how he felt about it.

SJ: How do you feel about being a hard boiled egg Gil?

GIl: um...are you a hard boiled egg too?

SJ: Yes

Gil: Then I like it.

He is the greatest, Imma miss him a lot but I wouldn't have it any other way. Wherever we end up we will both be happy.

Now I'm ready to relax and not worry about work or school over the break. It is my goal to pull out the old machine and finish at least one sewing project this break.

...

I hate to say good-bye

My weekend in a blog post

Some kids came knocking on our door playing the game "bigger or better". We traded them our box of recycling for this sweet cardboard box...pretty sure we came out with the better end of the deal.

My roommate, Liz, is on the ballet team at BYU. She just had her recital and managed to do three shows with two sprained ankles. Moriah and I made up a dance for her to show her how proud of her we were.

This is me and my friend Gil after his choir concert; he is a reaally good singer.